Find Out If Your Apple Device Was Among The 12 Million Units Hacked And Tracked By The FBI

[sellersm]

Full Article with instructions here

Excerpt:

Several hours ago, the latest hacker group to gain prominence, AntiSec, a subset of Anonymous, disclosed that it had obtained the confidential user data contained in some some 12 million Apple units after hacking an FBI Dell Vostro notebook computer, "used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java" which contined a file titled NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv, which "turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts." In other words, the FBI had the personal data of a substantial number of Apple device users, certainly all of which had been obtained without prior permission. Naturally the question here is why on earth does the FBI have this data, and as TNW suggests, "They published the UDID numbers to call attention to suspicions that the FBI used the information to track citizens. Much of the personal data has been trimmed, however, with the hackers claiming to have left enough for “a significant amount of users” to search for their devices." AntiSec has subsequently released one million of these UUIDs and their associated data. Find out if your device is on the list as explained below.

[Sawin]

I for one am not the least bit surprised.

[BushMasterBoy]

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...id-fbi-090412/


NSA, CIA, FBI they all are eavesdropping on everything we do, and the Constitution is a big piece of toilet paper! .gov is a big disgrace...

[Monky]

Yeah you guys don't think the mfg has anything to do w/ this? all those tax breaks for nothing... right..

[car-15]

I must not be of interest mine is not on the list.

[Ashton]

No overpriced mac junk for me.

[T-Giv]

Also not on the list.

[car-15]

No overpriced mac junk for me.

how come every goddam time apple or pc comes up in this forum it turns into a ak vs. ar or chevy vs ford bullshit argument on the first page? and 9 out of 10 times its a noob? and all 10 times it has not $hit to do with the ops' original topic? discuss.....

[BushMasterBoy]

I had a friend in the Springs area. I told him to buy a computer and sell on the internet. Some whack job sold him a Apple! The Apple used to have a time bomb icon with a burning fuse! If you see the time bomb...it mean't the computer was gonna crash. I managed to find a buyer for the Apple! Then we got a Dell...it was 1999! God I got tired of those time bomb icons...

[theGinsue]

Not on the list, but then again, I've had this iPad for less than 2 months.